George has been tech entrepreneur, CEO, and investor for over 25 years with a track record of building leading tech companies in B2B SaaS software. George has built 4 companies with over $5 billion of cumulative revenues, while raising over $500 million of capital through IPO's or venture capital. He has worked with top Silicon Valley VC's during his career including Kleiner Perkins, DFJ, Foundry Group, and SoftBank (Mobius Ventures). He has 4 exits including an IPO managed by JP Morgan. He has submitted multiple technology patent filings.George is an investor, board member and advisor to venture backed tech companies including companies in Silicon Valley, New York, and other locations in the US. His scope extends internationally and he advises CEO's in Mexico, Dubai and Germany in addition to assisting executives in Silicon Valley and throughout the U.S.Up through early 2024, he was Co-CEO and President of Reach Enterprises Inc, a mobile app platform. He was previously CEO of Author-it, an international enterprise SaaS software company serving the Global 50 in Life Sciences with offices in New Zealand, Amsterdam, Seattle and Palo Alto.He was CEO of Memeo, an Inc 5000 cloud company backed by Foundry Group, with customers including Samsung, Google, Sony and WD. Successful exit in 2014. He was CEO of AuctionDrop: 3rd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal Fast 50; 12th in Deloitte & Touche Tech Fast 50 Silicon Valley and an Inc 500 Fast Growth Company. AuctionDrop successfully exited in 2008. He was EVP/CFO of LiveCapital, a financial analytics software company, sold to D & B-which grew from zero to over $600m in revenues.He was EVP/CFO of Online Resources, an internet company which IPO'd in 1999 with JP Morgan. Today, Online Resources provides internet banking services to 15% of U.S. households & processes more than $200B of annual payments and services 17 of the top 50 U.S. banks as customers. George graduated Cum Laude from Duke University and began his career at Deloitte. He was a varsity athlete at Duke in the nationally ranked lacrosse program and still coaches youth and high school lacrosse. George is an avid road biker, typically riding 3,000 miles annually. He is a board member, investor in, adviser to various Silicon Valley technology companies. George was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan